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Republicans ramp up attacks on transgender people, in statehouses and on the campaign trail
CNN ^ | 4/30/23 | CNN

Posted on 05/09/2023 12:19:36 PM PDT by DallasBiff

From statehouses to the presidential campaign trail, Republicans are escalating their political attacks on transgender people – a reflection of what they see as a cultural fight their base is eager to wage.

Despite a poorer-than-expected showing in last fall’s midterm elections when various GOP candidates campaigned on anti-transgender rhetoric, many conservatives have only amplified their attacks this year.

And in recent days, those attacks have turned into new forms of mockery and political retribution, as Republicans seek to turn transgender rights into a flashpoint by seizing on social media controversies and exercising their rule-making power in statehouses where they hold large majorities.

In New Hampshire during a town hall last week, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley mocked and misgendered Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender woman who received conservative backlash after she posted videos promoting Bud Light, Olay and Nike. Haley referred to Mulvaney as “a guy dressing up like a girl making fun of women.”

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KEYWORDS: budlight; fakenews; homosexualagenda; politics; trans; transgender; xyxx
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Purely anecdotal, went to the local supermarket, and talked withe the local Bud Light distributor guy stocking the shelves, if they have noticed a loss in sales, he said yes, and I said whoever did the marketing, was wrong, he nodded his head saying yes yes, good guy. I feel sorry for them, well at least they got a free case of beer.
1 posted on 05/09/2023 12:19:36 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

The “if only” file for the GOP just keeps on growing. The Democrats want to mutilate children. Not many Republicans have the guts to call them out for it.


2 posted on 05/09/2023 12:22:36 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: DallasBiff

Good. They can still do a little somethin’ somethin’ then.


3 posted on 05/09/2023 12:23:53 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: DallasBiff
This is purely antidotal: while walking my dog, I chatted with a neighbor who is a father of an adorable 3 year old girl. I brought up the subject of prekindergarten and he went into a tirade of the idiocy that is going on in education. He was very unhappy. I feel very sorry for parents in this day and age.
4 posted on 05/09/2023 12:26:47 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: DallasBiff

Protecting kids is an attack on the alphabet people.

Okay...


5 posted on 05/09/2023 12:29:50 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: cdcdawg

There is a massive fear of the left, and the media, in this country.

The way the issues are discussed and presented, causes fear for those opposed, for being called racist,sexist, homophobic, etc.

We see it on issue after issue.

If you oppose affirmative action, you are a racist.

If you oppose abortion on demand, as espoused in Roe vs. Wade, you hate women, and you want women impaled on a coat hanger.

if you oppose all this global warming business, you oppose a clean environment, in fact, you actually want air and water pollution.

If you oppose illegal immigration, you are xenophobic, and are lectured about the poem on the Statue of Liberty, as if that poem has the force of law on immigration.

If you oppose all this LGBT you are homophobic and transphobic, and you actually want “transgender” children to die, because they have a high rate of suicide.

Many in public life, do not want to have to be put on defense on some of these issues. They don’t want to be called transphobic and homophobic by the media.

This is the world we live in. Conservatives are always on the defensive, and having to explain that no, we don’t hate someone, we don’t want kids to die, we don’t want a dirty environment, etc.


6 posted on 05/09/2023 12:31:33 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DallasBiff

“...attacks on transgender freaks”

No, protecting our children from trans freaks and preventing the trans freaks from getting their filthy mitts on our kids and mutilating them


7 posted on 05/09/2023 12:32:15 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Those lefties are the new nazis and fascists!


8 posted on 05/09/2023 12:32:44 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff
Republicans ramp up attacks on transgender people defense of a moral society, in statehouses and on the campaign trail

There ... I fixed it.

9 posted on 05/09/2023 12:33:56 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Conservatives are always on the defensive, and having to explain that no, we don’t hate someone, we don’t want kids to die, we don’t want a dirty environment, etc.”

The leftists are immune to logic and critical thinking. All they do is continue to scream the lies and the MSM and Biden pick them up and run with them.

There is NO defense against what they are doing. It’s a lot like the “Have you stopped beating your wife?” conundrum.


10 posted on 05/09/2023 12:34:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: Irenic

“Republicans ramp up attacks on transgender people “

F CNN


11 posted on 05/09/2023 12:34:31 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: lurk

Yep. They way they twist things around is part of the reason we have so much anger in this country. This is no “attack” on anyone. It’s a protection of what’s left of our morals as a country.


12 posted on 05/09/2023 12:36:05 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: DallasBiff

“a guy dressing up like a girl making fun of women”
There is nothing wrong with that statement. If someone declared himself to be a dog, he would be insane, because humans cannot become dogs. If a man declares himself a woman, he is delusional, because a man cannot become a woman.


13 posted on 05/09/2023 12:36:12 PM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: DallasBiff

Haley referred to Mulvaney as “a guy dressing up like a girl making fun of women.”

No fan of Nikki, but what is factually wrong with this statement?

14 posted on 05/09/2023 12:39:01 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: No name given

Yep.


15 posted on 05/09/2023 12:40:12 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: al_c

This story is a good example of leftist propaganda technique.

They call the legislation being passed as being an “attack” on transgender people.

The liberals twisted reasoning ability, says that barring these medical procedures on minors is an attack. Legislation which results in leaving these kids alone, not doing anything like that, is considered an attack.

Ditto, the issue of biological males playing in sports with females. Sometimes the media falsely says that they are “banning” or “prohibiting” the “trans” from playing sports.
THIS IS NOT TRUE.

What these laws do is say that you must compete with others of the same sex. Nobody is being disallowed from participation. These “trans” who identify as female are free to compete on the male sports team.


16 posted on 05/09/2023 12:41:17 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Vigilanteman

Per the liberals, it offends their sensibilities, to think that someone calls a male playing dress a male.

What Nikki said is perfectly ok with us, but to the leftists and liberals, it is outrageous and will cause them to faint, to think that someone “misgendered” a “transsexual” person.


17 posted on 05/09/2023 12:43:22 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“There is a massive fear of the left, and the media, in this country.

The way the issues are discussed and presented, causes fear for those opposed, for being called racist,sexist, homophobic, etc.

We see it on issue after issue.

If you oppose affirmative action, you are a racist.

If you oppose abortion on demand, as espoused in Roe vs. Wade, you hate women, and you want women impaled on a coat hanger.

if you oppose all this global warming business, you oppose a clean environment, in fact, you actually want air and water pollution.

If you oppose illegal immigration, you are xenophobic, and are lectured about the poem on the Statue of Liberty, as if that poem has the force of law on immigration.

If you oppose all this LGBT you are homophobic and transphobic, and you actually want “transgender” children to die, because they have a high rate of suicide.

Many in public life, do not want to have to be put on defense on some of these issues. They don’t want to be called transphobic and homophobic by the media.

This is the world we live in. Conservatives are always on the defensive, and having to explain that no, we don’t hate someone, we don’t want kids to die, we don’t want a dirty environment, etc.”

What even most Republicans don’t understand is that those tasked with spreading these alarming claims knew from the get go that these a bogus claims that were invented to gain control over the populations of the West. Every one of the “crises” listed is a propaganda invention and a population manipulation tool to destroy the wealth and resources of the U.S, Canada, and the rest of the West. These mantra that have been pushed into academe and the big corporate media are completely bogus. Even after irreversible damage is done, the brainwashed will not understand that they were used as patsies. The January 6 trials are intended to scare all Americans from publicly expressing opposing opinions and from ever showing up a any rally anywhere. Everybody now knows that any and every person can be targeted and destroyed for standing up for rationality and for facts and for actual science, not Soviet and Chi.Kom propaganda lies and coverups.


18 posted on 05/09/2023 12:45:37 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: DallasBiff

CNN aka Constipated News Nerds


19 posted on 05/09/2023 12:48:57 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: DallasBiff

We must fight this mental illness at every corner.

Then reverse gay marriage. That was what enabled the current state of affairs.


20 posted on 05/09/2023 12:49:17 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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